Vashon Island High School

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Much more video later after I get some other stuff done... ·

The GoPro takes at hit! Oh noes!!

I set up my GoPro HD Hero2 on a light stand pushed right up against the corner of the bleachers to use as a B-Camera while shooting VIHS Varsity Volleyball v Seattle Academy. Of course it didn't get out of warm-ups before a light stand leg was hit by a volleyball. Surprising how easily the GoPro mounts were thrown out of whack by a volleyball hitting the leg of the light stand. Gotta think about that. Saving it in post-processing isn't a permanent solution.

Really this was just kind of a dry run to see if I can get any useful footage out of the GoPro in the Vashon Island High School gym. The answer is yes, definitely. If I can figure out some way to set it up where it won't get hit by anything...

The Coach's cut videos were shot with my GoPro HD Hero2 and zoomed to 150% in post-processing, so they're pretty sketch. The #4 Director's Trailer video was shot with my Canon EOS 5D Mark II DSLR with a Røde VideoMic and are more what I want to be making as a finished video. Going to try to get back to the rest of the game Real Soon Now...

Vashon goals at roughly 2:15 and 3:57 in this clip

OK: this is the good stuff. Shot with my Canon EOS 5D Mark II DSLR with a Røde VideoMic on the 5D Mark II. Video post-processing was done in Adobe Premier Pro CS6. The Canon DSLR and the Røde VideoMic were mounted onto a Manfrotto MVH-502A video head which sits atop my Manfrotto tripod.

Pacific Northwest teams: Green Lake Crew at 4:26; Sammamish Rowing Association at 5:25; bow #41 meets the Eliot Bridge at 6:26 and onward; Vashon Island Rowing Club at 10:13-10:50. One of the VIRC's Women's Youth Eights rowers' older sister also rowed at HOTC 2014 for the University of Miami in the Women's Championship Fours.

I had shot stills at Bill Brown and the King Bees at the Beer Garden through their first two sets, and came back up to the stop light to shoot the Portage Fill Big Band for most of one set, up to Todd Zimberg's fantastic rendition of "Sing Sing Sing". It's extremely crowded at the Street Dance, so it's hard to move around a lot to get wide shots of the entire band. So, lots of close-ups, and not much else...

"...Calliope is outraged as well and would be here now if it were not for the constraints of cast doubling!"

The annual Spring Concert by the Vashon Island High School and McMurray Middle School Bands, under the direction of Ken Quehrn, Master of Bands. And this year featuring S.I.N.G., the McMurray Choir Club, under the direction of Pamela Hotchkiss.

Presented in the Vashon Island High School gym, 05/28/2014

For the Vashon Island High School Class of 2014, 195 scholarship awards totalling over $138,000 were distributed to 93 graduating seniors who completed Scholarship Notebooks.

In addition to the generous scholarships provided by the Vashon Island community, the Vashon Community Scholarship Foundation contributes annual scholarships as well, which are financed from VCSF fundraisers and the VCSF endowment fund. This year $20,000 is being awarded to the Class of 2014 through these scholarhips, which range from $250 to $1,000. Every single student in good standing who applies will receive a scholarship.

Vashon Allied Arts marked its fortieth anniversary with a celebration at the Blue Heron on Saturday, July 16, 2006. The particular goal was to bring back together some of the most important people involved in creating, nurturing, and sustaining Vashon Allied Arts over the decades, and to provide a get-together for new and old friends and well-wishers.

Edited and directed by Mark Sheppard. Blue Heron Center for the Arts, Vashon Island, January 8th and 9th, 1999. These photographs represent some of the very first digital photographs I took, now almost eleven years ago.